Chauncey DeVega — People Who Become Cops Tend to Have Authoritarian Personality Characteristics

Research shows a correlation between police behavior and authoritarianism.…

…criminologists, psychologists and other social scientists have compiled a large amount of data on the relationship between police behavior and authoritarianism. This information is readily available and highly accessible to the general public. However, it is not discussed by the corporate news media because the facts cannot be readily reconciled with the mythologies that surround (and protect) America’s police.…

When authoritarianism is combined with bias and power, the result can be exploitive and explosive. And this doesn't only apply to policing, or even chiefly to policing.

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People Who Become Cops Tend to Have Authoritarian Personality Characteristics
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